By: Hillary Katsin
For the Daily
Published May 31st, 2009
LSA senior Sara Achauer said she does not agree with the University giving out her personal information to banks.
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“It’s a pretty big breach of trust,” she said. “You trust the University because you have to give them your information to go here.”
The new legislation requires affinity-card contracts to be more clear in their language regarding what students are actually signing up for.
But according to Sigler, this is something the Alumni Association already does.
“The portion of legislation that focuses on affinity cards is just to publicize openly, which we already have (done),” he said.
Sigler added that the affinity agreement program at the Alumni Association is also primarily focused on alumni, so the new restrictions on age will not affect its revenue from the affinity-card contracts.
The money earned by the affinity agreements is about $2 million, only $80,000 of which comes from student accounts. The remainder of the revenue comes from alumni accounts, Sigler said.
According to Sigler, this money helps fund student leadership programs, scholarships, other student resources and general support of the Alumni Association.









